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It Steering Committee

The IT Steering Committee helps IT leadership maximize value from IT investments and practices. It is responsible for setting IT strategic direction, managing resources and budgets, overseeing projects, and ensuring alignment between IT and business strategies. The Committee is composed of CIO, business executives, and key stakeholders. It focuses on high-level priorities and direction, monitors strategy execution, and approves business cases for investments. The Committee meets at least quarterly with attendance and voting requirements to make timely decisions.

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It Steering Committee

The IT Steering Committee helps IT leadership maximize value from IT investments and practices. It is responsible for setting IT strategic direction, managing resources and budgets, overseeing projects, and ensuring alignment between IT and business strategies. The Committee is composed of CIO, business executives, and key stakeholders. It focuses on high-level priorities and direction, monitors strategy execution, and approves business cases for investments. The Committee meets at least quarterly with attendance and voting requirements to make timely decisions.

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IT STEERING COMMITTEE

Presenetd by Nkululeko Sibanda CISA,CISM

Purpose: Help IT leadership across the Enterprise maximise institutional value from IT investments and practices.

Presenetd by Nkululeko Sibanda CISA,CISM

Do any of these 12 (pain points) sound familiar?


The IT organisation is faced with dramatic change following a merger/acquisition The business is transforming and IT needs to follow/adapt in fast pace The business is unconvinced of ITs value and feels IT does not perform adequately. Outsourcing has been mandated without proper business case or without solving underlying problems, resulting in inadequate service IT is a support function, and not capable to innovate and provide a competitive edge. The benefits of IT are not measured or cannot be demonstrated There is no adequate view or control over IT spending, and IT costs are perceived to be too high. There is no clear approach or view over all laws, regulations and contractual terms to comply with. The current IT architecture limits potential innovation capabilities and is not agile There is no good understanding of IT related risk and IT related risks are not managed The business does not understand how IT operates or what it can and cannot do within a certain timeframe IT does not have the right IT skills or resource numbers to deliver according to business expectations.

Presenetd by Nkululeko Sibanda CISA,CISM

IT governance structure example


Corporate Governance Board Corporate Risk & Compliance

Capital Approval Committee

IT Risk Control & Compliance Committee

IT Steering Committee

Programme Office

IT Alignment Forum

Architecture Review Board

External Service Management Committee

Business Relationship Managers

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IT Steering Committee
Scope and Function The IT Steering Committee (ITSC) is one of the most important elements in the IT governance decision mechanism framework. It has overall responsibility for recommendations and decisions regarding IT priorities, funding and other IT requirements. This committee provides strategic direction for IT across the business.

Composition
CIO/IT Executive Business Executives, including CFO and COO Other advisors as required (e.g. Risk Officer) Key advisors as required (e.g. Finance, Legal, Audit, Risk & Compliance) Key Business Unit or business process managers, selected based on their expertise and knowledge

of the business impacts of information and technology


Head of Programme Management Substitutes or proxies should not be allowed for ITSC meetings The committee needs to be small enough to make timely and effective decisions, but should include

all important stakeholders. If IT is firmly entrenched as part of a more holistic view of strategy at Board and Executive Management level, a smaller ITSC is viable.

Presenetd by Nkululeko Sibanda CISA,CISM

IT Steering Committee

Operating Principles
Focus should not be diluted by undertaking too many projects or initiatives simultaneously Proper communication and consultation within the wider community as appropriate should be

facilitated
The IT Steering Committee should keep abreast of emerging technologies and authorise initiatives to

explore or pilot new enabling technologies


The IT Steering Committee will assist to set the high-level priorities and direction for the IT Alignment

Forum or Business Relationship Managers.


The ITSC will provide information to the Board to support the overall funding of the IT budget The ITSC should ensure that there is a balance between initiatives that run the current business,

grow the existing business, and have the potential to transform the business
The ITSC is responsible for monitoring the execution of the IT strategy.

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IT Steering Committee

Objectives
Setting strategic direction for IT investments Addressing the deployment of funds and resources and the delivery of a quality IT services whilst

balancing project priorities across the business & monitoring IT spend against budgets
Managing dependencies between initiatives and resolving significant resource conflicts Ensuring that all significant IT initiatives are driven to completion within time and budget and to scope Ensuring that the IT strategy is updated on a regular basis in alignment with the business strategy as

well as approving IT policies/standards and the IT business plan


Overall responsibility and accountability for overseeing SLAs with the business Addressing material scope variations and benefits realisation of projects Managing overall IT performance and progress against the balanced scorecard Ensuring that architecture standards and principles will enable the achievement of the IT strategy Approving business cases for IT investments, based on the recommendations of the IT Alignment

Forum.

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IT Steering Committee

Procedures

The IT Steering Committee will meet at a minimum four times a year A minimum attendance of three out of five permanent members and two additional members constitutes a quorum One vote per committee member; proxies are not permitted Urgent consultations and decisions may be requests for extraordinary needs through email circulation at the discretion of the Chair.

Presenetd by Nkululeko Sibanda CISA,CISM

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